Wolf Moon Dreams
It is hard to forget to honour the full moon when it is tattooed on your wrist and shines down on you from a foggy night sky. I poured more water over the… Read More
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Of Serpents, Eggs, and Spiral Dances
My friends arrived from all over the Lower Mainland (witches, heathens, mystics, thelemites, hermetics, shamans…) for my Imbolc ritual Sunday afternoon. I’d decorated the hall, with its view of the forest, by setting… Read More
Collecting the Bones of Trees
There are many books of magic, ethnobotany, and cooking in my living room, staring at my lonely unwarped loom, but hidden away in the darkness of my room is a seldom-seen collection of… Read More
Ducking Pigeonholing
I have noticed a trend in the blogosphere in the past year. Many of us are trying to voice something that perhaps hasn’t had a voice before: we don’t know what to call… Read More
Is It Just Me?
Is it just me that doesn’t get it? This recent trend towards the erudite, the pretentious, and the overly complex in magic today (especially traditional witchcraft). It’s seems the trend to coat magic… Read More
Whiskey for An Cailleach
I woke up early this morning and the Poisoner had made me tea. “Don’t look outside,” he said. So of course I did. The first snow of the season in this old town.… Read More
Moons, Magic and Indigo
I was catching up with my friend Nikiah about a week ago and we started talking about tattoos. She was going to add some moon phases to her collection and I told her… Read More
You Know You’re a Hipster Pagan When
It all started with Meadowsweet & Myrrh‘s Alison Leigh Lilly and her hilarious blog post Hipster Paganism. The local cities of Victoria and Vancouver where I’ve lived are plagued with hipsters and therefore… Read More
Frost Moon Rites
It is winter in the rainforest. When there are clouds, it rains and rains. When the sky is clear there is frost on the grass and the dead leaves still clinging to bared… Read More
